Is there a way to loop through and execute all of the functions in a Python class?

Question

I have

class Foo():
    function bar():
        pass

    function foobar():
        pass

Rather than executing each function one by one as

Answer 1

So long as you're only interested in Python 3.x (and from the empty parentheses in your class statement I'll guess you might be), then there is actually a simple way to do this without decorators: Python 3 allows you to provide your own dictionary like object to use while the class is defined.

The following code is from PEP3115 except for the last couple of lines which I added to print out the methods in order:

# The custom dictionary
class member_table(dict):
  def __init__(self):
     self.member_names = []

  def __setitem__(self, key, value):
     # if the key is not already defined, add to the
     # list of keys.
     if key not in self:
        self.member_names.append(key)

     # Call superclass
     dict.__setitem__(self, key, value)

# The metaclass
class OrderedClass(type):

   # The prepare function
   @classmethod
   def __prepare__(metacls, name, bases): # No keywords in this case
      return member_table()

   # The metaclass invocation
   def __new__(cls, name, bases, classdict):
      # Note that we replace the classdict with a regular
      # dict before passing it to the superclass, so that we
      # don't continue to record member names after the class
      # has been created.
      result = type.__new__(cls, name, bases, dict(classdict))
      result.member_names = classdict.member_names
      return result

class MyClass(metaclass=OrderedClass):
  # method1 goes in array element 0
  def method1(self):
     pass

  # method2 goes in array element 1
  def method2(self):
     pass

x = MyClass()
print([name for name in x.member_names if hasattr(getattr(x, name), '__call__')])